Ecobreves – ARGENTINA: Cities in Search of Lost Identity

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BUENOS AIRES, Apr 28 2007 (IPS) - Recuperating the landscape, smells, colors and other distinctive aspects of cities, which have become hidden in part by the consumer market, is the aim of a May 3-5 meeting in the northeastern Argentine city of Paraná. The idea is to think about how to “'reveal' our cities, hidden by a globalization process that makes everything look the same, and how to recuperate identity based on the landscape the uniqueness lost,” Elvira Díaz, director of the non-governmental Ecologist Forum of Paraná, told Tierramérica.

The “cities to fall in love with” meeting will include the participation of experts, NGOs, academics and the public, invited to discuss how to recover the identity of otherwise homogenized cities, she said.